Mustapha's Moroccan Provencal Marinated Green Olives Reviews
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Mustapha's Moroccan Provencal Marinated Green Olives Feature
- PICHOLINE OLIVES IN A MARINADE FROM THE SOUTH OF FRANCE
- FIRM FLESHED MARINATED IN ONIONS AND HERBS DE PROVENCE
- GREAT SERVED WITH ROASTED CHICKEN
- PERFECT FOR A MID DAY SNACK
- USE IN GIFT BASKET OR HOUSE WARMING GIFT
It would be quite normal to find Picholines olives flavored with Herbes de Provence in almost any market in the South of France, but you can also find them in just about every souk in Morocco. Mustapha starts with Picholine Marocaine and adds onion, herbs de Provence, lemon and bay leaf to create an amazingly flavorful snack. These meaty olives are perfectly seasoned and a great flavoring for roasts and stews.
Over the last two millennia the indigenous Berber peoples have endured invasion and conquest, each culture that came left its mark on the land, its people, their cuisine. A wealth of culinary creativity and the amazing quality of the bounty of ingredients from the everyday to the exotic make Morocco a culinary mecca. Introduced and re-introduced over the centuries, olive cultivation is central to Moroccan cuisine and culture. One can understand then why the Moroccans are masters of curing, marinating and infusing olives, and why they eat olives with just about every meal, even breakfast.
Olives were most likely first planted in ancient times, and each succeeding culture that invaded and stayed planted or replanted. Today the predominant variety of olive planted in Morocco is the Picholine Marocaine, the cousin to the French Picholine Languedoc. Given the milder and more consistent climate in Morocco the Picholine Marocaine grows into a superior table olive. The proof of this proposition is that France imports tons and tons of these olives to eat themselves and to export as a 'Product of France' - yes most 'French' Picholines that are sold in this country are in fact grown in Morocco. Besides the Picholine there are plantings of such Italian varieties as the Ascolano and Gaeta as well as the Spanish Sevillano. The best olives are said to come from the foot of the Atlas Mountains, and that's where Mustapha gets his.
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